Disconnecting device for telephone-lines.



No. 892,060. PATENTEDJUNESO, 1908; F. JOHNSON & H. SMITH.

D ISCONNEGTING DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE LINES.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27. 1907 UNITED STATES @FFICE.

FREDERICK JOHNSON AND nanny SMITH, or HATFIELD, MISSOURI.

nrsconnnc'rme Damon i on TELEPHONE-LINES.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June so, 1908.

Application filed Ir -on e7, 1907. Serial at. server.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Fnnnnnron JOHN- SON and HARRY SMITH, citizens of the United States of America, residin' .at Hatfield, in the county of Harrison an State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Imrovements in Disconnecting Devices for elephone-Lines, of which the following is a house wire of a telephone by pulling upon a cord attached to a spring actuated contact lever.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a perspective "view illustrating the construction and arrangement of a disconnecting device made in accordance with our one end and havin'g its opposite enr invention.

Referring to the drawing for a more particular description of our invention, the numeral 1 designates a telepIhone line wire, and

2 is a post located at a su icient distance outside the wall of a house in which the telephone is located. The line wire 1 passes around aninsulator 3, secured to the post 2,

and thence around a second insulator 4,

where the wire terminates. Pivoted to the post 2 by aporcelain or other insulator knob 6 is a contact lever 7, said contact lever having an enlarged contacthead 8 provided with a de ression 9 to contact with the line wire 1. X springlO secured to the post 2 at secured to the contact lever 7 serves to hold the lever in contact with the line wire. wire 11 is connected to a loop 12 formed in the contact lever 7 and extendsthrough the wall 13 of the house containing the telephone, and is properly connected thereto. At the .peg 17 the sprin The house upper end of the lever 7 an o crating cord 14 is connected to a loop 15, sai cord extending through the wall 13 and provided with a ring I 16 at itsterminal end w1thin the house.

When for any purpose it is desired to disconnect the telephoneline from the house line, the rin 16 is pulled downward to engage" a suita 1e peg or hook 17, thus disconnecting th wire 1. Upon releasing the rin 1.6 from the 10 returns t e lever 7 to contact with the ine wire 1, the current then flowin through the contact lever 7, and

throug the house mm 11 to the instrument inside the house.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that house wire 11 from the main line a device made in accordance with our invention will be found very useful during electric storms or whenever it is found desirable to cut off-communication between the main line and the instrument in the house.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim 15:

1. In a device of the character described, a main line connected to a post by insulators,

a contact lever pivoted on the ost and provided with a contact head a apted to engage the wire at some distance from the )ost, a house wire connected to said contact lever and extending to the instrument within the house, a spring for holding said contact lever in operative position, am a cord connected to said lever and extending through the wall of the house for throwing said contact lever out of contact with the line wire.

2. A contact lever pivotally connected to a postby an insulator, and provided with an enlarged head having a depression to engage a line wire, a spring for holding said lever in contact w1th said wire, a house Wire connected 'to said ,lever and a cord for operating said lever against the tension of the spring, substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof, we a' turcs in presence of two witnesses.

- FREDERICK JOHNSON.

HARRY SMITH. Witnesses:

Turns THOMING, D. L. Hnasnonn.

flix our signa- 

